Anaconda Distribution 2.x release notes

Highlights:

• add MKL (runtime, version 11.3.1) and make it the default backend for numpy, scipy, scikit-learn and numexpr on all platforms

Enhancements:

• added Windows debug information files, more precisely program database (.pdb files) files for Python by default
• added NoRegistry option to Windows installers, passing /NoRegistry=1 makes the installer not touch the registry

Fixes:

• in some cases start menu items were not created on Windows, due to a race condition, which we fixed in menuinst
• fixed the -f option of the Unix bash installers
• updated OpenSSL to 1.0.2f which contains important security fixes

Updates:

• anaconda-client from 1.2.1 to 1.2.2
• bokeh from 0.10.0 to 0.11.0
• conda from 3.18.8 to 3.19.1
• conda-build from 1.18.2 to 1.19.0
• ipython from 4.0.1 to 4.0.3
• jupyter_console from 4.0.3 to 4.1.0
• matplotlib from 1.5.0 to 1.5.1
• numba from 0.22.1 to 0.23.1
• numpy from 1.10.1 to 1.10.4
• pillow from 3.0.0 to 3.1.0
• python 3.4 from 3.4.3 to 3.4.4
• requests from 2.8.1 to 2.9.1
• scipy from 0.16.0 to 0.17.0

Added:

• et_xmlfile 1.0.1
• futures 3.0.3
• mkl 11.3.1
• mkl-service 1.1.1

Removed (from installer only, the packages are still maintained and available):

• openblas 0.2.14 (Linux)
• theano 0.7.0 (Linux)
• ujson 1.33

Fixes:

• added missing Windows process elevation when creating menu items
• added libdynd and dynd-python, which was missing in the last release
• fixed Cython on Mac OS X reporting missing libgcc_s.10.5.dylib
• fixed default channels being shown correctly in “conda list” after installing using Anaconda installer

Updates:

• anaconda-client from 1.1.0 to 1.2.1
• conda from 3.18.3 to 3.18.8
• conda-build 1.18.1 to 1.18.2
• conda-env from 2.4.4 to 2.4.5
• ipython from 4.0.0 to 4.0.1
• matplotlib from 1.4.3 to 1.5.0
• numba from 0.21.0 to 0.22.1
• pandas from 0.17.0 to 0.17.1
• python 2.7 from 2.7.10 to 2.7.11
• python 3.5 from 3.5.0 to 3.5.1
• scikit-learn from 0.16.1 to 0.17
• spyder from 2.3.7 to 2.3.8

Added:

• backports_abc 0.4
• cycler 0.9.0
• libdynd and dynd-python 0.7.0
• jbig 2.1
• pycairo 1.10.0

Highlights:

• add Python 3.5 support
• updated NumPy to 1.10
• added OpenBLAS support on Linux
• made drastic speed improvements to conda
• moved from IPython to Jupyter
• improved Start Menus on Windows
• updated Qt to 4.8.7 on all platforms
• updates to more than 60 other packages

Known issues:

• numba and llvmlite are missing for Python 3.5 (because they don’t support this Python version yet)
• numpy 1.10 has performance regression for record array access, see numpy/numpy#6467
• Python 3.5 does not work on Windows XP

Major package updates:

• bokeh from 0.9.0 to 0.10.0
• conda from 3.14.1 to 3.18.3
• conda-build from 1.14.1 to 1.18.1
• conda-env from 2.2.3 to 2.4.4
• ipython from 3.2.0 to 4.0.0
• networkx from 1.9.1 to 1.10
• numba from 0.19.1 to 0.21.0
• numpy from 1.9.2 to 1.10.1
• pandas from 0.16.2 to 0.17.0
• pillow from 2.8.2 to 3.0.0
• requests from 2.7.0 to 2.8.1
• scipy from 0.15.1 to 0.16.0
• spyder from 2.3.5.2 to 2.3.7
• sympy from 0.7.6 to 0.7.6.1

Added:

• anaconda-client 1.1.0
• jupyter 1.0.0
• jupyter_client 4.1.1
• jupyter_console 4.0.3
• jupyter_core 4.0.6

Highlights:

• updates to 60 packages, including Python 2.7.10 and Pandas 0.16.2
• support for signed packages in conda

Fixes:

• fixed the extra space in IPython terminal being created when typing the tab key on Linux
• added missing zope.interface.common sub-package
• fixed Sphinx package being included in Spyder package

Enhancements:

• added support for signed packages in conda
• added curl on Windows, and kerberos authentication support
• added Windows support for libnetcdf and hdf5
• split gdal into libgdal and gdal (python-bindings)

Known issues:

• when opening some HDF5 files, pytables will crash on Windows and Python 3

Major package updates:

• bokeh from 0.8.1 to 0.9.0
• conda from 3.10.0 to 3.14.1
• conda-build from 1.11.0 to 1.14.1
• conda-env from 2.1.3 to 2.2.3
• ipython from 3.0.0 to 3.2.0
• numba from 0.17.0 to 0.19.1
• pandas from 0.15.2 to 0.16.2
• pillow from 2.7.0 to 2.8.2
• python from 2.7.9 to 2.7.10
• requests from 2.6.0 to 2.7.0
• scikit-image from 0.11.2 to 0.11.3
• scikit-learn from 0.15.2 to 0.16.1
• spyder from 2.3.4 to 2.3.5.2

Highlights:

• updates to 61 packages, including: Python, NumPy, Bokeh, pandas and blaze
• added 16 new packages
• added HTTPS support for default conda packages repo

Fixes:

• fixed cython command on Windows
• fixed untgz NSIS plugin to install files with exactly 100 characters

Enhancements:

• added https support for default conda packages repo
• renamed dateutil to python-dateutil to reflect the official name
• added HDF5 and netcdf support for GDAL
• switched to using Pillow instead of PIL
• changed ipython-notebook to start directory to home directory on Windows

Major package updates:

• bokeh from 0.6.1 to 0.8.1
• conda from 3.7.0 to 3.10.0
• conda-build from 1.8.2 to 1.11.0
• ipython from 2.2.0 to 3.0.0
• matplotlib from 1.4.0 to 1.4.3
• numba from 0.14.0 to 0.17.0
• numpy from 1.9.0 to 1.9.2
• pandas from 0.14.1 to 0.15.2
• python from 2.7.8 to 2.7.9
• requests from 2.4.1 to 2.6.0
• scikit-image from 0.10.1 to 0.11.2
• scipy from 0.14.0 to 0.15.1
• spyder from 2.3.1 to 2.3.4
• statsmodels from 0.5.0 to 0.6.1
• sympy from 0.7.5 to 0.7.6
• pillow 2.7.0

Fixes:

• fixed the ability to compile C extensions in Python 3 using MinGW
• added missing lzma module to Python 3.3 and 3.4 (links to xz)
• added missing werkzeug/debug/shared package data to Werkzeug package

Enhancements:

• added statsmodel support for Python 3.4
• added LZO support for pytables on Linux
• added scikit-learn support for Python 3.4
• added Windows cffi support (in repository)
• added bsddb conda package on Linux to support Berkeley DB

Updates:

• bokeh from 0.4.4 to 0.6.1
• conda from 3.5.2 to 3.7.0
• conda-build from 1.3.3 to 1.8.2
• ipython from 2.1.0 to 2.2.0
• matplotlib from 1.3.1 to 1.4.0
• numba from 0.13.2 to 0.14.0
• numpy from 1.8.2 to 1.9.0
• pandas from 0.14.0 to 0.14.1
• python from 2.7.7 to 2.7.8
• requests from 2.3.0 to 2.4.1
• scikit-image from 0.10.0 to 0.10.1
• scikit-learn from 0.14.1 to 0.15.2
• spyder from 2.3.0rc1 to 2.3.1

Fixes:

• added missing libpython (the so-called MinGW import library) for Python 3.4
• in order to make pandas.io.excel work, we downgraded openpyxl from 2.0.2 to 1.8.5
• added missing idle script on Windows

Updates:

• conda from 3.5.2 to 3.5.5
• conda-build from 1.3.3 to 1.3.5
• numba from 0.13.1 to 0.13.2
• pandas from 0.13.1 to 0.14.0
• python from 2.7.6 to 2.7.7
• scikit-image from 0.9.3 to 0.10.0

Fixes:

• on Windows the /D option of the executable installer is now working
• added missing TkAgg matplotlib backend on Windows
• added missing osgeo._gdal_array extension to GDAL
• fixed rope on Python 3

Known issues:

• even though the matplotlib tkagg backend is now supported on all platforms and with all Python versions now, there might be problems on Windows with Python 3.4
• the Windows file association (‘.py’-files being executed by the Anaconda Python interpreter) is not working

Enhancements:

• switched from using PySide to PyQt as the default Qt binding
• added lcms to PIL on Unix
• added ability to copy files upon install when filesystem fails to create hard links
• added netCDF4 support on 64-bit Windows
• on macOS, Tk in now linked to Cocoa (instead of X11)

Major package updates:

• conda from 3.0.6 to 3.5.2
• conda-build from 1.2.0 to 1.3.3
• ipython from 1.1.0 to 2.1.0
• numba from 0.12.1 to 0.13.1
• numpy from 1.8.0 to 1.8.1
• requests from 2.2.1 to 2.3.0
• scipy from 0.13.3 to 0.14.0
• spyder from 2.2.5 to 2.3.0rc1
• sympy from 0.7.4.1 to 0.7.5
• python from 3.3.4 to 3.4.1